P.E.D. reports on a note to clients by GBH Insights’ Daniel Ives, which includes the following snippets:

• This Tuesday Apple will be holding its annual shareholder meeting at the Steve Jobs Theater on its Cupertino campus with all eyes on Tim Cook and his strategic outlook for the coming year.

• The company’s massive war chest and $200 billion+ of repatriated cash is now front and center for the Street as investors hope to get some further tea leaves on Apple’s cash strategy/timing as well as product vision for 2018 at this week’s highly anticipated shareholder meeting.

Don’t count on a special cash dividend to the likes that Microsoft had. Rather, count on Apple raising dividend yield again to around $.75 a share from the current $.63 a share.

This is another nice bump that will keep investors onboard and others coming onboard.

It can also be called “Look at what I’m doing with this hand, while not noticing what I’m doing with the other….”

That’s a nice increase, but a slow rise over time in terms of payout, something the companies growth can certainly keep pace with.

So the question will then remain, what WILL Apple do with all that cash?

I can only hope Apple does with it, that other tech companies cannot. Apple could get that Boeing low earth orbit satellite system up and running, buyout Tesla and get that company figuring out how to make more than 15 Model S vehicles a month!… Sheesh…